Hat-holder.



'No. 687,706. Patented Nov. 26, l90l.

. E. WARNER.

HAT HOLDER. (Appiication fil ed m 2. 1901.) I (N9 Model.)

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- UNITED; STATES- EDWARD WARNER, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

HATJ-HOLDER.

srnortsron'rro'n forming 'part of Letters Patent No. 687,706, dated November 26, 1901 Application filed May 2, 1901.

T at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD WARNER, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements Relating to Hat-Holders for Theater-Seats, of which the following is a specification.

My invention aims to efiect a more practicable combination of means for holding both mens and womens hats on the bottom of theater-seats than has been hitherto discovered.

The holder for womens hats is in the form of a normal projection placed in the middle of the seatbottom,with puneturable side walls, to which hats are attached by placing them over the projection and passing a pin transversely through both hat and projection.

The mens hat-holder is a swinging wire loop encircling the projection and is made to flap over and engage the crown of a hat and impinge on the brim of the same, holding it embraced against the seat-bottom, it being impelled thereto by a spring attachment. While the loop is designed primarily for mens hats and the projection for those of women, there are many Womens hats with little or no trimming or trimming not liable to harm by a little pressure that can be retained by the loop, and in the case of holding mens hats the projection cooperates very materially with the loop, first, in serving as an approximate center and peg in placing them under the loop; secondly, in preventing hats from falling in case their owners fumble in retaking them, and, finally, in the case of mens soft felt hats, which have been held by the old-style hat-holders with difficulty or not at all, the projection servingto hold them shaped out so that the loop may clamp them.

Following is a description of my invention in fuller detail withreferences to drawing, the various parts of which are properly numbered.

The loop 3, which is made of wire, has an eyelet attached to its left leg, and linked therein a handle 6, wherewith to raise the loop. The end of the left leg of the loop is bent outwardly into a shaft 4. There is coiled around the said shaft a spring 7. The

shaft 4 is secured to the sheet-metal base 9 by the wire fastenings in a manner to ad- Serial No. 58,444. (No model) mit of the loop swinging in hinge fashion. One end of the spring '7 is secured to the base 9, its opposite end having a closing impulse and being fastened to the left leg of the loop, impelling the same to impact with the seat. There is a base-frame 8, made of wire and possibly of steel strap, in the formation of three spurs from a center, to the left upper spur of which the sheet-metal base 9 is made rigid, and around the end of the right upper spur of the frame 8 is bent the end of the right leg of the loop 3, making complete the hinged connection of the latter. The lower spur of the frame 8 is bent slightly upward at its end and has attached to it the strap 14, which is drawn taut and made fast to the seat-bottom at its opposite end. The strap 14 is located to come under the loop at its bowed center and serve as a buffer to the same, deadening the noise of its closing impact.

This hat-holder is operated by raising the loop by means of the handle 6 and placing the hat crown uppermost beneath it and allowing the loop to lower over the crown and hold the hat embraced against the seat-bottom, which it will do through the impulsion of spring 7.

The holder for womens hats is a projection puneturable transversely bya pin,upon which their hats may be placed and secured thereto by a transverse passage of a pin through both hat and projection. Itis composed of a stand ard 10, rising from the center of the baseframe 8, with a hole at its summit, and a hood 13, with side Walls made of textile material or wire-netting. There is secured at the crown of the hood a disk l6, and in the lower edge of the same a ring 11. On the inside center of the disk is a pivot 12. This pivot is placed and the hood is stretched over the same and secured by the wire fastenings 17 from the ring 11 to the spurs of the base-frame 8. One of the advantages of this style of projection is the ready manner in which Worn-out casings may be replaced.

Following are the claims I prefer as constituting my invention:

1. In ahat-holder for theater-seats the com bination of a swinging wire loop to engage the crowns of hats and hold the latter embraced against the seat with a spring or other elastic in the hole at the summit of the standard 10,

attachment to enable said loop to so hold hats, and a projection to hold the crowns of hats, and to which the latter may also be pinned. 2. In a hat-holder for theater-seats the combination of a wire base-frame 8 forming three spurs from a center, with a sheet-metal termination 9 maderigid to its left upper spur, and a slight upward bend to the end of the lower spur, and a standard 10 rising from its center with a hole at the summit of said standard, a swinging wire loop 3 that will engage the crown and impinge on the brim of a hat, with the end of the left leg thereof bent outwardly into a shaft 4, and the end of the right leg of same bent around the end of the right upper spur of the frame 8, the wire fastenings 15 to secure the shaft4 to the termination 9, a Wire spring 7 coiled around the shaft 4 with one end of said spring secured to the left leg of the loop and the other to the termination 9 impelling the loop to impact with the seat, an eyelet 5 made fast to the left leg of the loop 3, and the handle 6 linked in said eyelet wherewith to raise the loop, a strap 14 with one end attached to the end of the lower spur of the frame 8 and the other end drawn taut and fastened to the seat, the said strap to come under the bowed center of the loop and serve as a buffer to the same, the hood 13 to hold the crowns of hats and to which the same may also be pinned, the side walls of said hood being made of material puncturable bya pin, a ring 11 secured in the lower edge of the hood and a disk 16 secured at its crown, a pivot 12 fastened on the inside center of the disk to fit into the hole at the top of the standard 10,- and the wire fastenings 17, to hold the hood 13 stretched over the standard 10 by connect ing the ring 11 with the spurs of the baseframe 8, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWVARD WARNER \Vitnesses:

GEORG STERNEKER, FRANCIS J SPIELER. 

